re: What white people do not understand about Rachel Jeantel (Trayvon Witness)(Posted by mylsuhat on 6/28/13 at 8:39 am to thegeneral3)

quote:Rachel was authentic, nervous and extremely herself. She did, after all, hear her friend, a minor, get killed in cold blood. And her involvement, from what we can tell, became dragged out beyond anything she ever wanted.

This is truly a life and death situation. Rachel was on the phone with Trayvon moments before he got murdered while walking home from a 7-11, back to "his Daddy's house," as Rachel so eloquently put it. Aside from George Zimmerman, Rachel was Trayvon's last communication on this earth.

re: What white people do not understand about Rachel Jeantel (Trayvon Witness)(Posted by Rickety Cricket on 6/28/13 at 8:40 am to thegeneral3)

There's no underlying, cultural-based reason why she didn't call the cops. She just didn't want to get involved. Her friend got shot while she was on the phone with him and simply didn't want to ether involved because it would inconvenience her. If you couldn't obviously glean that from her demeanor on the stand, then I don't know how you could get at some deeper reasoning.